The Essential Bread Cookbook

An indispensable bread-making book,  The Essential Bread Cookbook  brings together a baker’s dozen of the very best recipes for baking bread at home. Included are breads made with yeast and without, from white to whole wheat, and from flat to sweet. Think French-style bread, sourdough, rye bread, raisin bread, brioche, and even lemon bread, as well as many other bread recipes. Taken from the best-selling classic  Beard on Bread  by James Beard, the “Dean of American